The alleged ISIS terrorist who planned a terrorist attack at a Taylor Swift concert wanted to kill “as many as possible” with a “dirty bomb.”
Austrian Beran A. admitted he planned to carry out a terror attack at one of the sold-out shows – saying he had “big plans” after leaving his job last month.
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Cops foiled the ISIS-inspired terror plot, finding a blue light and siren at his home when they raided his home on Wednesday.
Impersonating police is the same sickening tactic used by far-right Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivek when he killed 77 people in 2011.
The arrest occurred the day before Swift’s first concert of the week in Vienna, after US intelligence passed information to Europol and Austrian police.
About 65,000 fans were expected at each of Swift’s shows this week, with another 20,000 gathered outside the stadium, the local channel said. Kurier reports.
Beran allegedly planned to carry out an attack at the sold-out concert on Thursday or Friday – with a 17-year-old and a 15-year-old acting as his accomplices.
The 19-year-old became radicalized with the Islamic terrorist group’s sick ideology via the Internet and pledged allegiance to the group’s leader in a video, local media reported.
It is understood that Beran planned to drive a car into the estimated 20,000 fans who had gathered outside Vienna’s huge Ernst Happel Stadium to listen to Taylor’s music during the show.
On Thursday, Beran confessed to planning to “kill as many people as possible” outside the site, Austrian security officials said.
He would attack these ticketless fans with knives, machetes and explosives, Photo reported.
When police raided his home, they found a bomb in an “advanced” stage of development and substances and tools used to make it.
They also found ISIS propaganda, 21 thousand euros in counterfeit money, machetes and festive ammunition.
He also planned to kill himself in the attack, authorities added.
The bomb squad and police in hazmat suits were captured on video by a neighbor searching his home in Ternitz, southern Austria.
A photo has emerged of Beran holding two huge zombie knives with his arms crossed.
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Until recently, Beran was learning retail sales at a stainless steel factory in Ternitz, where his father worked.
He would have had access to the plant’s laboratory, which stored various chemical products.
Security officials said the suspect had recently changed his appearance and had been reading and sharing Islamic propaganda online.
Beran, considered the mastermind of the plot, also had a 17-year-old Austrian companion.
The boy — who has Turkish-Croatian roots — was acting visibly near Happel Stadium, where Swift’s concerts were to take place, authorities said.
A concrete threat was averted
Franz Ruf, Director General of Public Security of Austria
He had gotten a job at a company that worked at the stadium a few days ago.
The third and final suspect – a 15-year-old boy – is an Austrian citizen with Turkish ancestry, authorities said.
Police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the alleged conspiracy.
Concert organizers said they had “no choice but to cancel the three scheduled shows” scheduled for Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
American intelligence discovered that Beran A. pledged support for ISIS-K, an ugly offshoot of the death cult, on Telegram in early July.
Omar Haijawi-Pirchner, head of the State Security and Intelligence Directorate, said: “He has clearly been radicalized towards the Islamic State and thinks it is right to kill infidels.”
Franz Ruf, Austria’s Director General of Public Security, said: “During a raid at his home in Ternitz, south of Vienna, investigators found chemical substances and technical devices that indicated concrete preparatory acts.”
Ruf said of the attack yesterday: “A concrete threat was averted.
“The crime suspect was focused on Taylor Swift’s concerts. Preparatory actions were detected.”
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said the canceled shows were a “bitter disappointment” but added that a “tragedy [had been] prevented.”
The Sun revealed yesterday that Taylor Swift plans to continue working and finish the tour after the sick plot was foiled on Tuesday.
ISIS’s barbaric history
ISIS, also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, is a murderous terrorist network officially formed in 2004.
The group, known for its barbaric public executions and beheadings, was originally part of Al-Qaeda – the terrorists responsible for 9/11, which triggered the decades-long global War on Terror.
They took advantage of the instability in Iraq and Syria after 2000 to rule with an iron fist.
After an injection of American troops into Iraq in 2007, ISIS lost some of its power in the region.
But it began to resurface in 2011 and in 2014 the US formed Operation Inherent Resolve.
The mission involved placing American troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria – as well as in other regions of the Middle East.
In 2014, ISIS was the most powerful, best-equipped and richest Islamic extremist group the world had ever seen.
In 2015, it had branches operating in at least eight other countries.
In October of that year, his Egyptian network bombed a Russian plane and killed more than 220 people.
In November 2015, 130 people were murdered and more than 300 were injured during one of the most brutal attacks against the West, in Paris.
And in June 2016, a gunman who committed to the murderous organization killed at least 48 people in a Florida nightclub.
By December 2017, ISIS had lost 95% of its stolen territory.
But its core ideologies, which included a burning hatred of the Western way of life, continued to inspire countless terrorist attacks around the world.
Although American combat in Iraq officially ended in December 2021, 2,500 soldiers were stationed in the country to work as advisors and trainers for Iraqi security forces trying to fend off extremist forces.
There are believed to be fewer than 1,000 still stationed in Syria.
Three of these American soldiers were killed in Jordan on January 28 – in a drone attack on a US military base near the borders of Syria and Iraq.
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